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Publishing & Creative News  16 Amabies, plus the oldest known woodblock print (Print). The best listening for learning to see and shoot (Format). “There may be no other piece of clothing that has had a trajectory like face masks” (Washington Post). All hail the Pulitzer list (The Pulitzer Prizes). Is that your phone or your binky, baby face (Fast Company)? It’s poetry time again: “Moments of need are also moments of joy” (Vanity Fair). Harry Potter reads Harry Potter in your home (Vulture). “Is it morally wrong to order delivery and put workers in that position, or is ordering delivery a good thing?” (The Atlantic). Good call, Black Mirror (Gizmodo). Discover ungated, markets for LGBTQ+ writers, and COVID-19 relief for live music crews (Submittable). Some Opportunities  For the Gournay Prize, Mad Creek Books will select one collection of essays to receive $1000 and publication. National Parks Arts Foundation is accepting applications for 20 artist residency programs. 5x5 is an online literary magazine that publishes poetry and prose of no more than 500 words. Join the #ArtisEssential project and tell Critical Read in a 300-word personal essay about a particular work of art—be it a work of visual art, performing art, or literature—you are turning to in these uncertain times. Airlie Press is calling for videos of poets sharing their own work. Submittable is continually updating this list of creative calls related to COVID-19. Based in Lower Manhattan, the Artists Alliance LES Studio Program provides free three and six-month residencies to under-represented, emerging, and mid-career artists. This month's A3 Review contest theme is the human and post-human. Be a mensch and send art, flash fiction, and poetry. ZYZZYVA is accepting applications for its fiction workshop with Ingrid Rojas Contreras. For the 2020 GLAS Animation grant cycle, two $2500 grants will be awarded to individual filmmakers living and working in the United States. Granta is accepting poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from new and emerging writers. The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction offers a grand prize of $2000 with monetary awards for all finalists. Word limit: 1000. Eyebeam’s Rapid Response for A Better Digital Future is a grant fund intended to support projects that are responsive and potentially groundbreaking in building a better digital world. ArabLit Quarterly's Summer 2020 issue will focus on “Crime.” Send translated work only, including stories, poetry, playtexts, and comix. For its 2020 Fiction Prize judged by Jenny Zhang, Cosmonauts Avenues seeks unpublished stories of up to 4,000 words. Good Works Review is seeking poetry, short fiction, literary essays, and black-and-white artwork for print publication. Artist Relief is accepting applications for its second cycle of COVID-19 relief grants. Trio House is considering book-length poetry collections for its Trio Award and Louise Bogan Award. Ragdale is accepting applications for residencies and fellowships in 2021. The theme for this month’s London Photo Festival photography competition is “Shades of Green.” [PANK] has open calls for little books, big books, tip jar submissions, blog content, and more. Submittable is hiring for a Director of Demand Generation to join our Montana-based team. What We're Into Sales Engineer Amelia Lyon is loving the podcast series Home Cooking. This podcast with Samin Nosrat (author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat) is all about what she and her friends and listeners are cooking while sheltered in place. Samin's voice is pure joy! This show has been a real bright spot for me over the past six weeks. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. New readers can subscribe here. For more specific creative calls, subscribe to our creative opportunities emails. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2020 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News The calming practice of using cookbooks like book-books (Bon Appetit). “Much of the debate around one space or two has been fueled by the halcyon days of the typewriter” (The Verge). Alice Wu and a super creative kick-in-the-butt (Refinery29). Welcome to your new obsession, Ghanaian Mobile Cinema (Nerdist). Build a NASA rover with 13-year old Alexander Mather (YouTube). “Excellent seating. Addition of snack bar is a welcome touch” (SB Nation). Yorkshire Silly Walks for the win (My Modern Met). A marathon in every sense of the word (WIRED). “The hard part… is that I actually like some amount of anxiety, because I think it helps me get things done, and do them better” (Semi-rad). Poem in which Ada Limón says enough (New Yorker). The sort of bingo submitting writers need to win right now (Submittable). Some Opportunities  The 7th edition of the AT&T Film Awards will celebrate emerging creators with $60,000 in cash and prizes for film categories including XR (MR/VR/AR), Mobile, Drone, Spanish-language, and Youth. Orca now dedicates its June issue to speculative fiction including sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and dystopian work. Editors prefer a literary style that is imaginative and artful with no tropes. High Desert Journal is a forum for literary, visual, and journalistic artists to contribute a deeper understanding of the landscape and people of the interior West. “Togethering” is an open call from Houston Center for Photography focused on photographs of how we are each experiencing this extended period of isolation. This virtual exhibition is open to anyone, anywhere. The NBC Talent Infusion Programs is accepting applications for its casting assistant and office coordinator programs. After Dinner Conversation is seeking short stories that draw out ethical or philosophical discussions—think "Trolley Problem," in short story form. For its Raymond Carver Short Story Contest judged by Pam Houston, Carve will award $3000 across five prizes. Report for America is seeking interns and fellows for the Ground Truth Project, as well as applicants for two managerial positions. Wild Roof Journal is an online art & literature publication seeking all forms of visual art (painting, drawing, photography, digital) and writing (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, short form). Glass Mountain accepts work in all genres for online and print publication. For “House Party,” an online exhibition of small works, Binder Projects is accepting contemporary art submissions from practitioners worldwide. Spanish and Portuguese Review is calling for papers from graduate students on topics including culture, film, linguistics, literature, pedagogy, second language acquisition, and translation. Berkeley Film Foundation awards grants for films in the production, post-production, and distribution stages by Bay-area filmmakers. River Teeth is accepting nonfiction for its journal as well as the weekly series “Beautiful Things.” The City of Austin’s Asian American Resource Center offers an annual Community Exhibit Program for artists who identify as Asian American Pacific Islander to display art and cultural objects that explore their unique perspectives. New Letters has a variety of open prize and general submission opportunities. The American Poetry Review is accepting poetry, prose, and prize submissions. For its quarterly magazine, Creative Nonfiction is accepting nonfiction of all kinds. Are you keeping a journal or diary during this pandemic? If so, you’re invited to share an entry (or two) with Passager, a journal and press dedicated to writers over 50. Flyway is currently looking for small artist portfolios to feature in a new online web journal. Submittable is hiring for a Director of Demand Generation to join its Montana-based team. What We're Reading Marketing Senior Editor Rachel Mindell is reading Outline by Rachel Cusk. Somewhere between first and third person, this incredible book by Rachel Cusk carves out its own form of narration—I’ve never read anything like it. The book opens on an airplane, apropos as a liminal space, with the narrator Faye en route to Athens where she will teach writing workshops for the summer. Faye is a collector of stories and a cipher. People reveal intimate details about their flawed lives to her and through her memory of them, we receive faint glimpses of Faye herself. So far, the book is almost entirely made up of characters telling Faye things they should probably keep secret. It’s delicious and I’m excited that this novel is the first in a series because reading Cusk immediately transports me into another world which is exactly what I need and want from bedtime reading at this moment. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. New readers can subscribe here. For more specific creative calls, subscribe to our creative opportunities emails. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2020 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News Museum selections straight from our nightmares (artnet). David Attenborough could be your kids’s virtual geography teacher (Mashable). Meet your newest coworker: a llama (Business Insider). For the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th birthday, NASA is giving you a birthday present (Gizmodo). "Pointing is not simply a matter of human nature" (GOOD). The American Library Association has released a list of the most challenged books of 2019, and it’s pretty discouraging (Literary Hub). Finding a silver lining in social-distancing (The American Scholar). Ever wanted to recycle your cardboard boxes into a proper cat house? Now you can (The Verge). "I was on Twitter last night when the album dropped and people were losing their minds" (NPR). Freelancing as a lady writer during the pandemic and the benefits of writing as a senior-citizen (Submittable). Some Opportunities Note: Some of these opportunities and events are subject to change. Please reach out to organizations directly if you're concerned about this.   Cricket Media is accepting writing and illustrations that speak to children aged 6 months to 14 years for its numerous children's magazines. For its 2020 Force Majeure Flash Contest, Storm Cellar seeks ambitious short works of fiction, hybrid, illustrations, and more. The World Happiness Awards is looking for nominations of individuals and communities working toward a world with freedom, consciousness, and happiness. For its Flash 405 Contest, Exposition Review is accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, stageplays, screenplays, and experimental work. Getty Images’s #ShowUs Grant will provide financial support and mentorship to artists who are committed to authentically representing women, female-identifying and non-binary individuals in commercial photography and videography. For its first short story contest, FishFood Magazine is accepting short stories with no theme. Porkbelly Press seeks poetry, essays, art, comics, and more for its print zine, Love Me, Love My Belly. A.C.T. Conservatory’s San Francisco Semester is a 15-week study-away program in the Bay Area that includes professional actor training and cultural immersion in SF. The Miami Foundation’s Legal Clinic Fund 2020 Grant is accepting applications from legal clinics based at universities across the United States. For its summer issue, Lines + Stars seeks prose poems that focus on the body and its challenges, strangeness, failings, joys, and revelations. Invisible City is looking for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Writers are invited to enter the Cunningham Short Story Competition from Willowdown Books. Artists ages 16-30 and living in England are encouraged to apply to the Tyneside Cinema New Creatives program for interactive work. Woman Made Gallery seeks applications to its upcoming virtual exhibition, Touch, from women-identifying and non-binary artists of all mediums. For its biannual print publication, Bennington Review is looking for writing about film/TV, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. One Story is accepting applications to its Summer Writers Conference in Brooklyn, New York. New York-based photographers are invited to apply to the New York Foundation for the Arts’s 2020 JGS Fellowship for Photography. Fatal Flaw seeks photography, essays, and fiction on the theme of dystopia, for its summer issue. Youth poets in Illinois are encouraged to apply to the 2020 Gwendolyn Brooks Youth Poetry Awards from the Poetry Foundation. Finding the Birds is looking for fiction, flash fiction, and poetry for its Gemini issue. Submittable is hiring for a Director of Demand Generation to join its Montana-based team. What We're Listening To Cory makes a new Submishmash Weekly Playlist every Tuesday. Tune in this time for: Fiona Apple coaxing out every emotion ever felt, probably, the classier side of crack dealing with Westside Gunn, The Strokes return in time for your charcoal-fed stylings, and more. Follow Submittable on Spotify for curated playlists from our staff. What We're Reading Sales Representative Nate Aschliman just finished The Twenty-Ninth Day, but Alex Messenger. Spending a majority of my free time out in the Montana wilderness hiking, running, or mountain-biking, it's never unusual to spot a wild critter or two. It's always enjoyable to see turkey, deer, elk, or even moose. However, there are two mammals I always hope I don't run into: a mountain lion or a grizzly bear. In The Twenty-Ninth Day, Messenger does an amazing job telling the story of a group of young men he was whitewater paddling with, and the beautiful remote landscape they were so deeply immersed in. You will also be right there with him, heart pounding, the moment he comes face-to-face with a grizzly. I really enjoyed reading it and realize how much courage it must have taken to write this and be willing to share such a traumatic story. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. New readers can subscribe here. For more specific creative calls, subscribe to our creative opportunities emails. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2020 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News "Cecilia Vicuña has incredible foresight." (Artsy). Drummer, Jojo Mayer, makes the case for improvisation (TEDx Talks). The history of the troll doll: “They were so ugly that you couldn’t help but laugh” (Smithsonian Magazine). Missing the background noise of your office? Try listening to this (Fast Company). Forgotten tales by the author of The Secret Garden were uncovered and they're pretty weird (The Guardian). Remembering two musical legends: John Prine and Bill Withers (Rolling Stone). After powwows were cancelled around the country, Indigenous people found a way to come together by dancing in isolation (The Star Phoenix). Ever wondered what it's like to be a grant writer (Science)? The woman behind Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins is still going strong: Beverly Cleary turns 104 (A Mighty Girl). Chris Cilfone on being a finalist in the Nat Geo Wild to Inspire contest, writing and researching from home with kids, and our new shareable reviews feature (Submittable). Some Opportunities Note: Some of these opportunities and events are subject to change. Please reach out to organizations directly if you're concerned about this.   Bayou Magazine is looking for poetry, nonfiction, and visual art for its biannual publication. For its Magician Ekphrastic Writing Challenge, MacQueen’s Quinterly seeks written responses to a ceramic figure by sculptor and painter Aggie Zed, titled “Magician.” Cumberland River Review is accepting poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction for its April 2020 issue. The Supernatural Fiction Award competition, from the Ghost Story, is open to exciting, thought-provoking short stories about the supernatural. Prairie Schooner seeks essays, fiction, poetry, and more from both established and emerging writers. For its Monthly Musepaper, New Millennium Writings invites writers to send short stories, poems, or essays on the subject of "Wish You Were Here." The Whiting Foundation encourages writers in the process of completing a book-length nonfiction project to apply to its Creative Nonfiction Grant. Writers from around the world are invited to apply to two-month author residencies at the Historic Joy Kogawa House, the Vancouver childhood home of author Joy Kogawa. Restless Books is accepting fiction from first-generation immigrants to its 2020 Prize for New Immigrant Writing in Fiction. For its general spring reading period, Porter House Review seeks fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Bethesda Urban Partnership invites artists from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia to apply to the Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards. The Flashpocalypse contest, from the Molotov Cocktail, seeks apocalyptic or dystopian flash fiction. Playwriting Australia invites young Australian playwrights to apply to the Max Afford Playwrights’s Award. In an effort to encourage and elevate the creation of Catholic poetry, Catholic Literary Arts is launching a poetry contest. Auxocardia seeks writing and visual art from medical students and trainees. Assure Press is looking for poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and visual art for the summer issue of its publication, Iris Literary Journal. For its 2020 Inge Morath Award, the Magnum Foundation is accepting grant proposals from female photographers with long-term documentary projects. Birdcoat Quarterly seeks first or second full-length poetry collections from any poet writing in English who has not yet published more than one full-length poetry book. Aspiring journalists and editors are invited to apply for the summer intern fellowships at Boston Review. Southern Humanities Review is currently accepting poetry for its annual Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, with a special interest in  underrepresented voices. Submittable is hiring for a Director of Demand Generation to join its Montana-based team. What We're Listening To Cory makes a new Submishmash Weekly Playlist every Tuesday. Tune in this time for: Setting the mood for your virtual dinner party, followed by a night in at your personal night club. Getting dressed up is highly recommended. This week, Creative Electricity gets down to business with a serving of dark, progressive house. Suggested Reading COVID-19 has swiftly, drastically, and indefinitely altered the lives of many artists. In order to serve practicing artists in dire need, Artist Relief has launched emergency grants for artists. Read more... Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. New readers can subscribe here. For more specific creative calls, subscribe to our creative opportunities emails. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2020 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News “One-hundred five fiberglass figures stand atop white chairs” (Colossal). Remembering the lyrics and the life of Bill Withers (NPR). The quest for whale boogers (Gizmodo). What’s it like to be an out-of-work stop-motion character? Like this (firstshowing.net). Analyzing the use of the silhouette in photojournalism (The Guardian). “This is the story of two messy cats. One wore a hat and had no known permanent address, while the other lived alone in a cat-sized house in Japan (Literary Hub). Using dance to bring people together (Frieze). 32-years worth of beautifully illustrated meals from Itsuo Kobayashi (Core77). Two things that will always make everything all better: dogs and wine (Mashable). Chatting with Nat Geo Wild to Inspire finalist, Adam Clayton, and how freelancing can improve your creative writing (Submittable). The latest COVID-19 art calls (updated periodically) and exciting new collaborative functionality (Submittable). Some Opportunities Note: Some of these opportunities and events are subject to change. Please reach out to organizations directly if you're concerned about this.   The Missoula Writing Collaborative is offering online courses in April on memoir and business writing. For its Inaugural Open Genre Book Prize, Fonograf Editions is looking for full-length manuscripts. Los Galesburg seeks novellas for its second catalogue. In an effort to expand its literary community, Barstow & Grand is accepting prose and poetry from authors with any sort of connection to the Upper Midwest. Aurora Poetry seeks original poems for its Spring 2020 Poetry Contest. Writers working to complete a book-length project within a year are invited to apply to Miami Book Fair’s fellowships in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Stillhouse Press is accepting manuscript-length collections for its 2020 Short Story Collection Contest. Writers and artists under 22 are encouraged to send their short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, and more to Flexible Press. The Missouri Review seeks audio projects in poetry, prose, humor, or documentary form for the Miller Audio Contest. The South Bend Museum of Art is looking for artists to feature in an online exhibition, Making A Way, which will highlight the many ways COVID-19 has impacted the art world. For its art competition recognizing talented emerging artists, Boynes Emerging Artist Award seeks 2D art in all mediums from artists around the world. Amplify Arts is offering various grants for Omaha-area artists, including Micro Grants and a Generator Grant. For its Fiction Workshop with Chia-Chia Lin, ZYZZYVA is accepting applications from writers with current manuscripts they would like to workshop. AIR is offering emergency relief to the professional audio community impacted by COVID-19 through its Freelance Audio Fund. For its Poetry Competition, Whales of Arcadia seeks previously unpublished poetry. Queens Museum seeks applications from visual artists in NYC for its Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship 2021-2022. Poets are invited to send their work to Vallum for its 2020 Chapbook Award. Artists Alliance is accepting applications from emerging artists to its 2020/2021 Winter Residency. Writers and visual artists are encouraged to apply for Ulalume Lighthouse’s multiple creative calls and contests. The Vehicle seeks poetry, fiction, art, and more from emerging artists and writers. Studio Institute is accepting Arts Intern applications for six cities. What We're Listening To Cory makes a new Submishmash Weekly Playlist every Tuesday. Tune in this time for: Deep space regret set to Thundercat’s basslines, Sorry and the unspoken brutal honesty that binds us, Earl Sweatshirt advocating for Drakeo the Ruler’s release, and more. Check out Creative Electricity for your weekly dose of house music. What We're Reading Strategic Analyst, Anna Marbut, just finished reading Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente. Space Opera is a cheeky sci-fi novel that follows a washed up glam-rocker through an unexpected alien invasion/apocalypse. Decibel Jones and the one surviving member of his band have been selected to represent Earth in an intergalactic Hunger-Games-meets-The-X-Factor musical competition. They must produce an original song in just a few weeks that proves humanity's sentience or else face the obliteration of the entire human race. This book has an enjoyable balance of irreverent political and social satire, creative exploration of alien life, and thoughtful commentary on personal regret and loss. Definitely a worthy addition to any sci-fi lovers' quarantine reading lists. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. New readers can subscribe here. For more specific creative calls, subscribe to our creative opportunities emails. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2020 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807

Publishing & Creative News This is your chance to become an amateur archivist/librarian (Atlas Obscura). Celebrate your failures as well as your successes (Creative Boom). Revisiting Ken Burns’s documentary, Baseball: bringing sports and style together (GQ). Preserving beloved bar trivia nights (Mashable). “The Getty Museum in Los Angeles is challenging people to recreate their favorite artworks using themselves as the subject and household objects and their props” (design boom). Books to inspire you to write more (Book Riot). Need a nightly bedtime story? Dolly Parton’s got you (Vulture). Remembering Tomie dePaola: author and illustrator of Strega Nona passes away at 85 (Literary Hub). “I think you’re wearing enough sequined cat prints as it is” (Forbes). Tips for putting together and submitting a research proposal (Submittable). Some Opportunities Note: Some of these opportunities and events are subject to change. Please reach out to organizations directly if you're concerned about this. Another Chicago Magazine seeks nonfiction, drawings, photographs, audio, and more for its “Dispatches from a Pandemic,” in an effort to unite creatives during this trying time. For its Fiction Contest, Pigeon Pages is accepting previously unpublished fiction pieces of 3,000 words or fewer. So to Speak Journal seeks poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art with an intersectional feminist focus for its annual 2020 summer online issue. Mothers Always Write is offering a spring online Writers Boot Camp for those interested in perfecting their literary writing through extensive one-on-one coaching by an editor of MAW. For its ArtEffect Project competition, the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes challenges students to create a piece of artwork that depicts the life story of an unsung hero. Artists are invited to apply to sell their artwork at the Doylestown Arts Festival, taking place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in September. ArtsWave’s Emergency Response Grants for Arts & Culture Organizations program is offering up to $20,000 to small and mid-sized Cincinnati-based organizations facing hardships due to COVID-19. Artists of all ages are invited to apply to Summit Artspace’s various virtual exhibitions, including a special call for artists ages 0-14. Bethany Arts Community offers residencies to emerging and established artists for the development of both new works and works in progress. For its 2020 Vella Chapbook Contest, paper nautilus seeks manuscripts of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and more. The Asian American Journalists Association has several scholarships, awards, grants, and fellowships open for applications from Asian-American journalists and students. The City of Berkeley has launched the Berkeley Arts Organization Continuity Grants, an emergency relief fund to help mitigate COVID-19 related financial losses that Berkeley arts organizations have suffered. For the Ocotillo Review Volume 4.2, Kallisto Gaia Press is accepting creative nonfiction, flash fiction, and poetry. Guttenberg Arts invites artists to apply for its Space and Time Artist Residency for Winter and Summer of 2021. Catamaran seeks previously unpublished poetry manuscripts for its Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. For its Spring 2020 edition, GASHER is looking for visual art, creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. The CineStory Foundation is accepting applications to its Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition. For its magazine, Catapult is looking for writing that adheres to one of several themes, including Queer Life, 15 Minutes, On Writing, and more. Palette Poetry seeks entries to its Emerging Poet Prize from poets with fewer than two published, full-length collections. For the Pa’ Lante Music Video, Oncata asks people around the world to contribute videos of them dancing, for inclusion in musician Solana’s music video, Pa’ Lante. What We're Listening To Cory makes a new Submishmash Weekly Playlist every Tuesday. Tune in this week: TOKiMONSTA + Sunni Colón circling the inevitable, Mac Miller’s infectious positive energy forever, Dua Lipa ignites the dance floor, and more. This week, Creative Electricity brings you House music that talks about house music. What We're Reading Onboarding Specialist Tommy D'Addario just finished reading The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. You already know Ta-Nehisi Coates as the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me and the powerful series of essays, We Were Eight Years in Power. After falling in love with his prose in these non-fiction works, I knew The Water Dancer wouldn’t disappoint. Set in antebellum Virginia, this novel moves into a space of magical realism as the enslaved protagonist comes to understand his unusual abilities—an unfailing memory, which he uses to entertain his masters, and another fantastical talent that I shouldn’t spoil for future readers. Coates’s familiar lyricism and clarity of thought provide great sanctuary amid the turbulence of everyday life. While you’re house-bound, don’t sleep on this powerful novel. Submishmash Weekly is a weekly human-curated newsletter bringing news and opportunities in publishing and other creative industries to artists, filmmakers, and writers. Does your organization want to be promoted in our newsletter and on social media? Let us know! Got high-quality writing related to publishing or digital media? Consider submitting it here. New readers can subscribe here. For more specific creative calls, subscribe to our creative opportunities emails. Thanks! Twitter Facebook Discover Copyright © 2020 Submittable, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Submittable PO Box 8255 Missoula, MT 59807